Tropical Storm Toraji may have seemed largely a non-event to those braced for violent weather. What set it apart is that the city’s stock exchange broke with past practice by trading normally. By contrast, the Jockey Club abandoned the last three races of a nine-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday night ahead of a…
Hong Kong police have launched a citywide search for a burglar who took advantage of deserted streets during Tropical Storm Toraji, when the No 8 typhoon warning signal was issued in the city, to break into a kindergarten and steal more than HK$6,600 (US$850) in cash. A source familiar with the case said surveillance cameras…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s weather forecaster will lower the No 8 typhoon signal at 10.20am on Thursday, as Tropical Storm Toraji is set to weaken gradually and education authorities announce that classes of afternoon schools will…
Siobhan Haughey said having a pool named in her honour at the Hong Kong club where she learned to swim as a child was something she “never thought possible”. The South China Athletic Association paved the way for Haughey to become a three-time Olympian, and on Wednesday invited her former SCAA coaches, current members of…